What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Career Coach position at Goodwill Kentucky?
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky is looking for an energetic, self-motivated, dynamic professional Career Coach to join our team! The Senior Career Coach will work closely with Career Services leadership to provide peer input as well as provide case management, supportive services, and career / employment support to individuals participating in Goodwill programs and services. This role will assist individuals in obtaining and maintaining employment, achieving their career goals, and improving productivity and employability skills to reach their vocational potential and improving their quality of life. If you are looking for an opportunity that allows you to reach new goals while helping other's in your community, the Career Coach opportunity is for you.
Goodwill's Mission is to connect Kentucky job seekers with the resources and services they need to find and maintain long-term employment and a career path. We serve Kentuckians who have disabilities or experience other challenges finding success in the workforce, such as criminal backgrounds, language barriers, limited education, lack of transportation and chronic poverty.
Job Type : Full-time, Exempt
Essential Duties and Tasks :
- Works closely with Career Services leadership to implement program goals, prepares reports as required and / or requested, ensures program outcomes are met, and may provide direct service delivery.
- Functions as a member of the Career Coach team, giving and receiving peer input into the delivery of services.
- Monitors caseloads of assigned Career Coaches to ensure services are being administered within Goodwill Works guidelines. Monitors required electronic data bases to ensure data is kept current and accurate.
- Recruit and introduce individuals to Goodwill programs and services. Complete a needs assessment and conduct intake interviews with individuals to determine barriers to employment, as well as services needed.
- Identify current trends and forecast future workforce structures to help develop and implement skill sets needed to sustain a viable workforce.
- Assists individuals in obtaining information about their benefits and how they will be affected by employment to help them make good decisions about employment opportunities.
- Develop and maintain working relationships with local businesses, vocational training institutions, and support service and community resource agencies to identify job placement and career advancement opportunities
- Performs site visits, as required.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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Goodwill Industries of Kentucky is an EEO / AA employer - M / F / Veteran / Disability / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
